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Ammi Phillips - American, 1788 - 1865
The Strawberry Girl, c. 1830
West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 63
Ammi Phillips painted for more than fifty years, producing perhaps as many as two thousand portraits in so many disparate styles that his works were once thought to be by several different artists. Currently about five hundred works can be attributed to him, most sharing the characteristics of plain backgrounds, strongly contrasting light and dark elements, and awkwardly articulated figures.
Born in Colebrook, Connecticut, in 1788, Phillips traveled often through western Connecticut and Massachusetts and through New York state. Advertisements in the Berkshire Reporter indicate that he was offering his services as a professional artist in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, as early as July 1809. His earliest identified works, for example his full-length portraits of Charles Rollin and Pluma Amelia Barstow, painted in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1811, may have been influenced by Connecticut limners active in the late eighteenth century, particularly J. Brown (active 1806-1808) and Reuben Moulthrop (1763-1814). By 1813 the artist and his wife were settled in Troy, New York, shortly thereafter moving to Rhinebeck. The portraits of this period (1812-1819), all of which were executed in towns along the New York-Massachusetts border, were once given to a hand called "The Border Limner." They are distinguished by a light, almost pastel palette, three-quarter or occasionally full-length figures, faces with dark-lined eyes, and a primitive attempt at conveying volume.
In the next decade Phillips' paintings show greater realism, deeper coloring, and increased sophistication. He evidences a new interest in costume that may derive from contact with the academic Albany artist Ezra Ames (1768-1836), who lavished attention on the shawls and lace in his women's portraits.
During the early 1830s Phillips was located in Amenia, New York, and painted in nearby Clermont, Rhinebeck, Germantown, Pine Plains, and Northeast. In 1836 he left for Kent, Connecticut, the town which gave its name to another distinctive period (1829-1838) of Phillips' career. The work of the so-called "Kent Limner" was first isolated when a group of ancestral portraits were brought together for a 1924 summer fair in that town. Among them were eight which shared markedly similar characteristics.
After 1840, Phillips' portraits contain less costume detail. These later paintings were apparently executed rapidly and with great assurance. The last of Phillips' work, those of the 1860s, inevitably show the influence of photography.
When the newly widowed Phillips was married to his second wife in 1830, the record listed his occupation as "portrait painter." Unlike many untrained portraitists who had to resort to other means to supplement their income, Phillips seems to have pursued a single vocation. Although he and his family never settled in one town for any great length of time, he was far from a struggling itinerant. He generally painted several members of the same family and through these connections seems to have had a steady flow of work. He was known to the academically trained painter John Vanderlyn, who commented to his nephew on the profitable and socially advantageous aspects of Phillips' craft.
A century after his death in 1865 in Curtissville, outside of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Phillips was given his first one-man exhibition, followed by a major comprehensive show three years later. Today he is recognized as the most prolific and one of the most important naive portraitists in nineteenth-century America
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
www.doaks.org/resources/cultural-philanthropy/national-ga...
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Fr Nicholas Owen Austin SJ professes his final vows at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm street London
All my brothers are monks. Even though I had some other vocational choices, it seemed this was the only one. Its very hard and I do sometimes question whether this is right for me. One day, I pray, it will become clear.
Sanga
Student monk
Outskirts of Siam Rep
Cambodia
The annual Bishop's Golf Outing for Seminarian Education and Vocations took place on Wednesday, September 13, 2023, at Swan Valley Golf Course in Thomas Township.
Photo by Jeff Schrier
On Saturday, May 15, 2021, during Mass at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew, Bishop David Walkowiak ordained David Jameson, David Sacha, and Logan Weber as transitional deacons for the Diocese of Grand Rapids. Blessings and congratulations to these men!
Visit our website to learn more: grdiocese.org/ordination-2021/
(Photo by Jaymie Perry, Little Ways Photography)
In the summer vocation, parents are tend to send their kids to camps like this one, roller skate camp. Some students are elites in speedy racing.